Noun: Leakey lee-kee
- English palaeontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
- Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
- English palaeontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
- Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey
- Kenyan paleoanthropologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued his parents' work; he was appointed director of Kenya Wildlife Services but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
- Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey
Sounds like: l
Type of: anthropologist, fossilist [archaic], palaeontologist [Brit, Cdn], paleontologist [N. Amer]
Encyclopedia: Leakey, Mary Nichol